UPEI Relay for Life

UPEI’s Relay for life will take place October 28 at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre, giving students, faculty and staff an opportunity to celebrate life and remember those who have survived or died from cancer. The 12-hour overnight event will get underway at 6 pm and run overnight until 6 am, Saturday, October 29. Everyone on campus is encouraged to attend and contribute-- an especially poignant moment will be the lighting of the luminaries and survivors' walk.

Subway AUS Women's Soccer Championship

The championship schedule is as follows: Friday, November 4th Quarter-final #1: Dalhousie (3rd) vs. UNB (6th), 12:00pm Quarter-final #2: Cape Breton (4th) vs. StFX (5th), 2:15pm Saturday, November 5th Semifinal #1: UPEI (1st) vs. Lowest Remaining Seed, 12:00pm Semifinal #2: Saint Mary’s (2nd) vs. Highest Remaining Seed, 2:15pm Sunday, November 6th Championship Game: Semifinal Winners, 2:00pm

Subway AUS Men's Soccer Championship

The championship schedule is as follows: Friday, November 4th Quarter-final #1: StFX (3rd) vs. Saint Mary’s (6th), 12:00pm Quarter-final #2: Dalhousie (4th) vs. Moncton (5th), 3:00pm Saturday, November 5th Semifinal #1: Cape Breton (1st) vs. Lowest Remaining Seed, 12:00pm Semifinal #2: UPEI (2nd) vs. Highest Remaining Seed, 3:00pm Sunday, November 6th Championship Game: Semifinal Winners, 1:00pm

George McRobie speaking on Transition Movement Nov. 15

George McRobie, one of the world’s leading proponents of sustainable agriculture and small-scale technology, will speak at UPEI’s Faculty Lounge in the Main Building, on Tuesday afternoon November 15, from 4:30 – 5:30 pm. The public is invited to this event, hosted by the Institute of Island Studies. McRobie will speak about the Transition Movement in Europe and North America, and the challenge we all face of living with climate change, and living without oil. The recipient of an honorary degree by UPEI, McRobie is a part-time Islander, dividing his year between homes in Brackley Beach and London, England. He is also the patron for The Homestead Farm, the new sustainable agriculture component of the Sir Andrew Macphail Homestead in Orwell, PEI. McRobie was a close friend and colleague of the radical economist E.F. Schumacher,whose landmark book “Small Is Beautiful” made such an impact in the latter part of the 20th century. With Schumacher, he co-founded in 1966, of the Intermediate Technology Development Group, an organization known since 2005 as Practical Action. Its mission is to work with poor communities in four regions of the world to develop appropriate technologies in areas such as renewable energy, food production, and small enterprise development. Following Schumacher’s death in 1977, George McRobie carried on their joint work by writing a practical guide called Small Is Possible, published in 1981. This book made prominent mention of the work of Prince Edward Island’s Institute of Man and Resources, an organization which first drew McRobie’s attention and person to our shores. More recently, McRobie has served as President of the Soil Association, Britain’s foremost farm organization promoting organic agriculture.

Departments of Biomedical Sciences & Pathology and Microbiology Seminar

SPEAKER: Ana Gradil, Department of Pathology and Microbiology TITLE: Comparative immunological development and responses in lower vertebrates - Shortnose and Atlantic sturgeon. SPEAKER: John Davidson, Department of Pathology and Microbiology TITLE: The effect of high pressure water treatment regimes on mussel and Tunicate productivity.
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